I Paid My Son’s Crush to Ask Him to Prom – When I Saw Pictures from the Evening, I Couldn’t Believe My Eyes

imagined it.

Mothers become experts at ignoring the things they aren’t ready to accept.

I lined them up beside the rose bushes and took dozens of photographs.

At one point, Jeremiah leaned close to whisper something into Ella’s ear.

She flinched.

I blamed a bee in the garden.

“Smile, sweetheart,” I told her.

She tried.

Her mouth obeyed.

Her eyes did not.

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